Trinity hosts TCAF district meet

Published 7:00 pm, Thursday, April 16, 2009

Today, for the first time, Trinity will host a TCAF district track meet on its campus and Trinity track coach Greg Alvarado hopes to give the home fans something to cheer about.

The meet, which gets underway at 4 p.m. at the Trinity track, includes El Paso Faith, El Paso Immanuel and El Paso Bethel.

Alvarado said that he feels his team has a good shot at winning this meet.

"I feel really good about it," Alvarado said. "The kids, you can see it in their eyes and in their performance, they know this is the meet that can get them as an individual and as an entire team to state."

Alvarado's teams have had unprecedented success in his six-year tenure as Trinity's coach. At every meet this season, the boys team has finished second while the girls team has finished second at all but one meet.

"This is the first time, that I'm aware of, that this team has placed at least second on a consistent basis," Alvarado said.

Alvarado said his team's strength comes from its relays, the 400, 800 and 1,600-meter relays as well as Travis Newman and Hannah Schorre as individuals Both of them run in the 200 as well as perform on the relay teams, Newman in the 400 relay and Schorre in the 400 and 800 relays.

Alvarado said Newman and Schorre are his team's best chances at going to state, but wouldn't be surprised to see the rest of the team go as well.

"If the pieces fall right, we really should get everybody to state," Alvarado said. "You really never know what's going to happen at a track meet though."

The three El Paso teams that are coming to this meet are vastly differ from each other. Bethel is the most experienced and should give Trinity the most trouble while Faith is in its first year with a track program.

"I don't know what Faith will bring to the table," Alvarado said. "Bethel has always given us good competition.Immanuel, Faith, Bethel, they're all going to have their athletes that are going to stand out."